The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-02

views and statements Of the same places,
scenes and events 10 remarkable. THIS
former are said to be marching through .
beautiful and luxuriant country during
the day, aud at night encamping where
they arc supplied with IN abundance
Of the best provisions, and all sorts Of
rural dainties. There Is nothing OF war
about the proceeding except its stimulus
and excitement. On the side Of the poor
Austrians It is Just the reverse. In his let
ter Of the same date, describing the sams
places and . march over the Same road,
tho writer en- scarcely find words
to set forth the suffering, impa.
! thence and disgust existing around
him. What was pleasant to the former
was intolerable to the latter. What
| made all this difference: asks the jour.
na1ist. One condition only-ths French
are victorious; the Austrians have been
defeated. The contrast may convey q
| distinctive idea Of the extent to which
moral impressions affect the efficiency Of
the soldier'"
Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by the physical state. What great
| opportunity this gives to the Christian
| physician, for be an feel at the same
time both the pulse of the body and the
pulse Of the soul, and he can administer
to both at once, and il medicine is needed
he can give that and if spiritual counsel
is needed he can give that-an earthly and
a divine prescription ut the same time
and call not only on the apothecary of
earth but the pharmacy of heaven. Alb,
that is the kind of doctor want at NV
bedside when get sick-one that can not
only count out the right number of Drops,
but vino can also pray. That is the kind
Of doctor have had in my house when
sickness or death came.
do not want any Of your predicate or
atheistic doctors around my loved ones
| when the balances of life are trembling.
A doctor who has gone through the medi.
cal college, and in dissecting room has
traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism, and found no God in any of
the labyrinths, is fool, and can not doc.
tor me or mine. But, ON. tho Christian
doctors! What comfort they have been
in many of our households. And they
ought to have q warm place in our
prayers, as we'll as praise on our tongue.
Dear old DIR. Skillmnn! Ny fathers doc
tor. my mothers doctor, in the village
home. He carried all the condolences OF
all ths families for ten miles around. We
all felt better as soon as We saw him
enter thu house. His face pronounced q
beatitude before he said a
word. He welcomed all of us chill.
dren into life, and he closed the
old peoples eyes when they en-
tered the last slumbsr. think I know
wha: Christ said to him when ths old
doctor got through his work. think he
was greeted with the words: "Come in,
doctor. was sick and We visited mev'
I bless God that the number of Christian
physicians is multiplying, and some of
the students of the medical colleges are
here to-day, and I hail you, and bless
you, and ordain you to the tender,
beautiful, heaven-descended work Of q
Christian physician, and when you take
your diploma from the Long Island Med.
ical College to look after the perishable
body, be sure also to get diploma from
the skies to look after the imperishabls
soul.
Let all Christian physicians unto with
ministers of the Gospel in persuading
good people that it is not because
God is against thom that they
sometimes feel depressed, but because
OF their diseased body. / suppose
when he called on every thing human aud
angelic, animate and inanimate, and from
snowflake to hurricane, to praise God
than when he said:
Out Of the depths Of he'll have I come unto
thee. o Lord.
Or that Jeremiah was any better when he
wrote his prophecy than when he wrote
his "Lament ations," or that Job was any
better when he said:
know that my Rsdeemer liveth.
than when, covered all over with the pus.
tules Of elephantiasis, he sat in the ashes
scratching the scabs OF with a broken
piece of pottery; or that Alexander Cru.
den, the concordist, was any better man
when he compiled the book that has helped
ten thousand students of the Bible than
when, under the power of physical dis.
order, he was handcuffed and strait.
waistcoated in Bethnal Green Insane Asy.
lum.
Another practical use Of this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad that
they must first SOW their wild oats, and
afterward Michigan wheat. Let me
break the delusion. Wild oats are gen.
orally sown in the liver, and they can
never be pulled up. They SO preoccupy
that organ that there Is no room for
the implnntation Of righteous crop.
You see aged men about Us at eighty,
erect, agile, splendid, grand old men.
How much wild oats did they SOW be.
tween eighteen years and thirty: None.
absolutely none. God does not very
often honor with old age those who have
in early life sacrificed swine on the altar
of the bodily temple. Remember, o.
young man. that while in after life, and
Alters years Of dissipation, you may, per.
haps, have your heart changed. religion
does not change the liver. Trembling and
staggering along these streets to-day are
men, all bent, and deca yed, and prema-
turely old, for the reason that they are
paying for liens they put upon their
physical estate before they were thirty.
by early dissipation they put upon
their body a first mortgage, and
a second mortgage, and third
mortgage to the devil, and these
mortgages are now being foreclos ed, and
all that remains Of their earthly estate |
the under ia ker will soon put out Of sight. |
Many years ago, in fulfillment of nv
text, dart struck through their liver, and |
it is there yet. God forgives, but out |
ragged physical law never, never, never.
That has Sinai, but no Calvary. Solo. |
mon in my text knew what he was talk. |
ing about. He had in early life been q |
prOtiigate, and he rises up on his throne |
Of worldly splendor to shrek out q warn |
ing to all the centuries. David, bad in |
early life. but good in later life, cries out |
with an agony Of earnestness:
Remember not the sins Of my youth
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name Of |
'.squatter sovereignty" to those who went |
out and took possession of lands and |
held them by right Of preoccupation. Let
a flock of sins settle on your heart before |
Won get 70 twenty.fiv wears of a1e and |